Official, but not mandatory :)
From Tom's latest blog post:
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UPDATE: Rice Pirate has made a preloader that sums up the experience Friday night of trying to match-make all the teams after having a clock that was an hour off and over 100 people in chat:
SWF (preview)
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/f7 50edbe8cd2128f275090ac901ac3e3
FLA (in AS3)
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/80 00076af1eae021ff645783e0a8eb0d
If you don't like the visual you can pass on it, but it's there if you want some unity amongst the submissions. :)
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For those who weren't there, Stamper's sharp charisma essentially convinced the staff to chug down Jim Beam and tell racist jokes about their own mothers, while Tom had to sift through the rotting mass grave of submissions and teams. All set to the ceaselessly streaming questions, comments, and complaints blazing through the chat box.
The preloader was a tribute to that snowy Winter's night (last night).
In other news, I've got the music video for Prism all storyboarded up. And if I ever clear my slate, I'd like to start a short series...
MrScriblam
gonna retcon this into pico and the dandys
RicePirate
cool :)